Leatherback turtle:

It is the only sea turtle that has no hard shell, but rather a soft leather skin without scales. The color varies and black coffee, smooth, elongated shell, ending in a point beyond the tail.


Inhabitant of the Caribbean and Atlantic and Indian oceans, from Labrador, British Isles, Norway, Alaska and Japan to southern Argentina, Chile, Australia, Cape Gracias a Dios and Mediterranean.

Lives in waters far from the coast or in shallow offshore waters, but occasionally enters bays and estuaries.

In the Pacific is located in Playa Grande and Playa Langosta. In the Atlantic Gandoca Manzanillo.

They are omnivores, but they have been seen eating jellyfish or jellyfish, other foods are crustaceans, molluscs, tunicates, fish and blue-green algae.

They are endangered because of :

-Illegal hunting.
-Poaching by humans and animals to take their eggs.

Poor turtles... they are so cute :3 but they need HELP!